And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Announcer and now, bbc world news. Reporting from new yor i am laura trevelyan. Tensions in america are rising. Economy to reopen. The number of coronavirus cases here near 8000. Eth price of u. S. Oil goes negative as demandduries up and prs sr on their suesafsr the deadliest m shooting in canadas history, the Prime Minister called for unity after a gunman kills at least 18 peopl i am going to have lunch. Laura plus, storytime with chelle obama. She is trying to distract theth kids and give e parents a break. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. More there in new york, the death tl the lowest it has beein two weeks. 478 people died in the last day. Are seen across the country, there is growing disagreement over who is in charge of testing for coronavirus. The president says it is up to government. Monotony federal heres iur north america editor, jon sopel. Likee, wildf series of demonstrations has erupted across the country. To protest the stayathome order. To t prote closure of the u. S. Economy. To protehat these people see as unacceptable government interference in their lives. Eyand o not see muc seem much interested in maintaining social dtancing. This person carries a pocket give me liberty or give me covid19. He may have dealt with both. Now it is time to let the adults make decisions of what businesses ty want to open. If they want to open,pen up. We should open up yesterday. It never should have closed. It is a hoax. F it is facts life. We live and die. To shut down the economy because fuel for these protests was provided in a sers of tweets by the president , urging citizens to liberate their states from overntalous govern of coronavirus, they are now having to deal with protesters. This is not the time for protests. This itime for leadership. We will stand up and provide that will stand up and provide empathy and understand what is going on in this country of ours. When i spoke to the president , he was ncerned. There were groups of people planning to protest tomorrow ovagainst anment shutdo, what would be your advice . President trump you are all allowed to protest. They were six feet apart. It was an orderly group of peop. Some of the things that. Happen are not appropria in the end, we will en up our states and i think theyill open up well. As far as protesters, icy protesters were also to things. I am with everybody. I am withverybody. A twist, though. In denver, colorado, Health Workers at the front line of the fight againsthe coronavirus tried to stop the protesters who see themselves as the vanguard for individual liberty. Four weeks of lockdown and reui bg. Ldjonin sopel, bbc news. Laura st lets go to now, which the white house is watching very closely as cases in massachusetts surge. Joining medo now is or from Harvard Medical School an emergency medical physician. Thank you so much for joining us. What is the situation there in boston with coronavirust cases ri now . Right now, we have seen a slight decrease in the number of new diagnoses. Come down ju a bit the last few days, but that does not mean our hospitals are feeling more and more pressure. The reason for that idiagnosesdse and a couple days later you are fine. This virus takes weeks somimes come at 10 days, 14 days before peoplely become critic ill. Every day that goes by,nother 1500, 2000 cases, even if it goes down a little bit, the pressure ontehe hospital s is not abating at all. Laura f meanwhile, we aally seeing the death toll drop here in new york. What do you make of that trend . Well, at some point when you do enough social distancing and people takenery seriouslys i think new yorkers have because they confront the realities ofn what happens wou do not, then there is a benefit to that. We hear calls to reen the economy in places where maybe there has not been as much of a burden. And that of human what inoannot see does affect me kind of thing. Doing the right thing in terms of shutting it down and sheltering in place. Other areas, people do not see it so they do not believe it. Unfortunately, by the time you see it with this virus, it is too late. That means it is everywhere in your community and there is very little you can do to stop it at that point laura how much testing do we really need to safely reopen our economy . Is it millions of tests a week . It is. Se athe reason for thatf is unliket ndemic, doing the usual, contact trachich is to try to find out where somebody was when they got the virus, who they were with, that not going to be very feasible in a syms h aat has such a long lonowyound can shed the virus and be contagious. A the only way for us to have around sort of detective way that we normally do for most outbreaks. The who was great at it, but it is to test to know where thingf are becauseou do not have an idea what thef cases is in ey community, you have absolutely no ideahen it is safe to reopen because you do not know if you are a week or two away from a b you get a bunch of positive ousts today just t screening, and it will not be until seven or 10 days from now that people might notice it. Laura tnk you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Thank you. Laura the very first outbreak of coronavirus here in the u. S. Was in wasngton state in the end of february. D leaders there acickly to shut down large gatherings and slow the spread of the virus. Joining me nows the mayor of seattle. Thank you so much for being with us. What was the single most importantk step u t to slow thrate of transmission . I would sayhere were three portant things. First one was we learn from the d Health Organization ho important it was for elected leaders of a region to spe with one voice, and i really have to give great tribute to ou governor, our county executive, and my fellow mayors here because we went and hashed out what we thought were the best policies to remain unified. So the public got one message about the important of what they had to do. The second thing we did, and it is justis as importante relied on the science. As yourt previous gu says, by the time you see it, it is almost too late to contain it. So by the time we saw an outbreak in this region, we knew had already been communi spread and it was too late to do the typical mitigation. Me have a great researc fhro coactually typing the genome on the virus itself and the positive virus counts how wide it had spread. And it was significant, so we knew we had to act. And so the third thing i sd to folks is, you have toqu act as kly as you can to shut down the way for the virus to transmit, and that is to find people who are not infected. Thatdo only happens if we cu the facetoface contact her but it has been devastating to the economy. It has been devastating to have the soety shutff, but it was the only way we have gotten to where we have gten, which is where we have flattened the curve. We ore on a decline but n of the woods yet. Laura you have done yet. So how careful are you going to be about reopening seattle . Mayor durkan we have to be significantly careful. Again, we have to act as region because of the way people seattle cannot actlone. We have to act with our county and state. Second, we hath to base it on science. It is a the reverse of what i just said. So we know we are at a higher pleau than we were when we had zero cases becausee know we havenes c iur omuagain, the viro ad. So we have to be very smart about which businesses we open first, what protections they have, and make sure we have the capacity in our Health Care System so we do not overburden the healthcare workers who have been working so long, so hard. Laura you have seen protests there in washington state. What do you make of the president eouraging some of the pro the lockdown . Not like yor durkan i think it is uly pftolyunproductive, and unhr message his own Public Health pple are sending. You cannot say in the one handhi that you washin state acted as they should to slow the transmission of this viruand to make sure we did not happen in new york or italy happen here and athe same time have peop. Actest withoul t ts fth people have been economically depleted. Everyone wants an end to this. Myself included. Weant to come out of the shut down. Wet we know we have to do it smart because io not do it smart, we will end up not just where we were two months ago, but in a much worse place with not the same level of ability to figh it. Our Health Care System has already been stretched thin. We are low cn testingability mippr etiotmequve epa sure as we open we e thinking about, what are those parts of the economy that can come back first . Is it the Construction Industry really strong measures onake protecting people . We have to be very careful, but we have to move and we know we d t but again, io st ies beso t t much for joining us. Well, u. S. Lawmakers are working on a deal to provide more money sr hardhit Small Busines across america. That ige rte os ut oef r moafney last week. Demand wase igh, but s the business is applying for loans were not so small after alls katty kay tells us. It looks like american small injection of cash, some 470 billion. They need this becausehe last big package that went out a few weeks ago for Small Businesses proved not to be enough. The system was overwhelmed. There were far too many ap money found a just could not cess it. Had all been dispersed. Itso nowhere are negotiations over the 470 billion and critically safeguards have been put into it so that it is the most needy, the really Small Businesses, people in vulnerable communities who can actually cess these funds. It is all a bit embarrassing because it seems that some of the money actually went toery big chains, thingsikte l country, and shake shack, a hamburger joint across the United States which has hundreds of emoyees around the country. They managed to get 10 lillion from tt dispersal of atnds. The ead d tidedivo g when 10 can have accesds fs un of d million that other small sinesses reay did need laura katty kay reporting there. In other news now from around the world, germany has become relaxing its Strict Lockdown measures. Small shops, car dealerships, and bicycle sres are among ose that can reopen. The countryas more than 145,000 cases but it has flatteneethlast i week,t said ie spread under control. Social distancing remains in force. So richard bransonay s his Airline Virgin Atlantic needs Government Support to survive. The virgin group says he is not asking for a handout but a commercial b loan,ieved to be more than 6 million. Critics point out he has 600 million. Notid. Its crinicpo os t huthae o form an emergency unity government with his political it follows a year of politil sdeadlock in which a ser of general eleions failed to produce a stable government. His opponent urgently planned not to go into coalition with mr. Netanyahu but he changed his mind i coronavirus outbreak intensified. The price of u. S. Oil has below zero for the firs time in history. That means producers are actually paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands. They are worried about runni out of stora space as demand has dried up worldwide due to the coronavis outbreak. Mielle has more. It is a simple case of demand and supply. Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, we have seen a sharp drop in demand. T in context for you, before the world had 100 millionarls per day. Since then, it has dropped. It means there is an excess capacity. Too much oil in the worldigeing produced now. 25 Million Barrels per day. That istarting to have a real serious effect on the price of oil. West texas intmediate oil in particular are paying customers to take the oil away because they cannot afford to storet. Laura ichee reporting on how prices. Lling at negative canadas Prime Ministers as violence has no place in his country. Justin trudeau was speaking after a gunman killed at least 18he people inorst mass in canadas history. Gunmans motive is not clear. Ag once an able site, the trail of crime scenes across the cottage country in nova scotia. Investigators are searching for answers after a weekend massacre that stands as canadas deadliest mass shooting. The suspect, 51yearold gabriee workman, tar victims and set fire to homes in a rural town. He then led police on a chase across the province, opening fire at random. He evaded capture by blending in with the very poliing to stop him. His ability tothove around province undetected was surely greatly benefited by the fact that he had a police or in every way to a marked police car. And beyond that, he was wearing a police uniform. Prime minister Justin Trudeau said violence had no place in canada. P. M. Trudeau this happened in small towns. Places where people have deep roots. Places wre people know their neighbor o and look for one another. Now, these communities are in mourning, and canada is in mo with them. The community is grieving while on lockdown due to the coronavirus. A schoolteacher, a nurse, and a police officer. Heidi stevenson waste a 23 year n of the force and a mother of two. Auitarthile s yil stongtr t oll anved laura you are watching c world news america. Still to come onig tons program, the economic devastation brought by the coronavirus, how there in america have been hit hardest by the crisis. Millions of people across india have been allowed to go back to work. Individualtates are given the the bbc has more on this story now. Last week when Prime Minister modi announced the shutdown would be extended until may 3, he also said the government would look at areas and sectors whereerps some of the restrictions could be eased with a view to reduce the economic distress that the lockdown is causing. So the areas that have seen that happening today are largely rural parts of the country, not very densely populated, and where there so fa have not been any confirmed cases of coronavirus. Farming, fishing,ti dairy ties are all but allowed to resume. Work on plantations, any work for Public Utilities like constructing of roads, sewer lines, all of that in these green zones, what the government is calling tm. So areas where there is no confirmed cases of coronavirus so far, these activities hao been allowed begin. Ur the novel coronavus has claimed moreconoc desthaatio tn0 too. Il22 aanli h mcameonnsav been to ltimore, a city where the poorest are reeling from remarkable in north america is its scale. This is a place that used to be e biggest, the strongest, the richest. Right now, though, what ishe startling iscale of economic contraction. Down on the ground, 22 million benefits in the past month. Th is the result. Food bank lines at an Elementary School in baltimore. This is a poor area with lite financial resilience, even ate st of time my son got due to the covid19. Like i say,s far as bills and stuff, you get behind in bills. So, yes, make it the best way you can. Utting together bags of produce, bread, chicken, cereal, the american welfare system is not set up for this crisis. This isha the work of cties and volunteers. They work for a film equipment crew in baltimore. Their usual work has dried up so they volunteer here. Today they asked us if we can provide some tents and cones and tables so we got all that stuff, pulled it fr the warehouse, wiped it down, and loaded up the trucks. Doing this makes me feel like i am not just sitting at home waiting for us to go back to work. We are finding ways to get out there and still be helpful, creative, and just together. That is what this is all about. Great day. Also playing a big role is the Baltimore City school board. Many students would gefree meals in school time. Now, two meals a day served to anyone who wants them, child or adult. The cost is growing. According to the head ofoa the scho, this emergency is asking profound questions of american society. Jobs. Lot of these folks had a lot of these people were getting up and going to work every day. And getting on public c should and worki 2, 3 jobs. What do you do when people absolutely have a work ethic people absolutely thnt to supporr families in much greater numbers are unable too so . That is a society question. I think we are going to have to grapple with it. Righ now, we are doing what we can because we know we need to do it. Injoth aost her familys finances have been devastated, and so are those of many of her work colleagues. He 1 t2re workers out of 200 workers working right now. Husband, his job, 80 workers, nobody is working. Not one. I did start collecting unemployment around the end of march, but we have corridors. Once the quarter is over, you have to reapply, see if you are approved or the additional 13 weeks. Ou in ary with Many Political divisions already, this virus has created another, between those who can work from home and those who cant. Jobs like cutting hai derek burton has watched his ssriving barbershop busine destroyed in a few short weeks. They would be buzzing me every day but nonstop on saturday. Have a ticket machine like at a meat counter. We are losing 40,000 a month. I am not going to stick it out. I am selling my shrtes off to my r. I dont want to be involved here anymore. I y. Walking a what does that feel like after all that work . Defeat, loss, turmoil, heartache, stress. He did not vote for the president last time, but will in the next election. I will vote for donald trump because i think he needs to get us out of this. Ont see any point in stopping and waiting for a sign. What kind of sn are we waiting to open up the economy . We still have an economy that needs to exist regardless of any kind of illness or defects. All the while, the wageshat just about kept the communities together drained away replaced by benefits that are hard to access and uncertain in duration. E, all over baltimou can find the rustic remnants of businesses, a reminder that once lost industry is hard to restart. Right now, the vast american economy, for decad, spthe my,ais shuttered. Much of it silent, but how long before it, too cannot be restarted . Laura David Grossman reporting. So many families struggls g to make eet right now. Lets recap our top stories tonight. Protests have brken out across the United States as people express their angemeover stayateasures. Canada is incountrys largest es shooting. A gunman disgu policeman killed at least 18 people over the weekend. The price of u. S. Oil has dropped into